<div style="margin-left:0%; margin-right:0%">
<div class="title">
<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
</div>
<div class="subtitle">
CHAPTER 1
</div>
<div class="summary">
Everything under the sun is vanity and vexation of spirit—He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="1"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/1" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='smallcaps'>
The</span> words of the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 27.">Preacher</a>, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="2"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/2" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;2 
<sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">Vanity</a> of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/1/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE empty, fleeting, unsubstantial.">vanity</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="3"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/3" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;3 
What <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 12: 21; Matt. 16: 26; 2 Ne. 9: 51.">profit</a> hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="4"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/4" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;4 
<i>One</i> generation passeth away, and <i>another</i> generation cometh: but the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Destiny of.">earth</a> abideth for ever.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="5"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/5" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;5 
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="6"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/6" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;6 
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR its circuit.">his</a> circuits.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="7"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/7" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;7 
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea <i>is</i> not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="8"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/8" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;8 
All things <i>are</i> full of labour; man cannot utter <i>it:</i> the eye is not <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 27: 20.">satisfied</a> with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="9"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/9" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;9 
The thing that hath been, it <i>is that</i> which shall be; and that which is done <i>is</i> that which shall be done: and <i>there is</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 3: 15.">new</a> <i>thing </i>under the sun.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="10"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/10" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;10 
Is there <i>any</i> thing whereof it may be said, See, this <i>is</i> new?  it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="11"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/11" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;11 
<i>There is</i> no <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Veil.">remembrance</a> of former <i>things;</i> neither shall there be <i>any</i> remembrance of <i>things</i> that are to come with <i>those</i> that shall come after.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="12"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/12" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;12 
&#182; I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="13"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/13" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;13 
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 97: 1 (1-2).">wisdom</a> concerning all <i>things</i> that are done under heaven: this <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/1/13b" mark="b" type="Q" title="HEB (literally) ‘evil business’; i.e. that which is of little profit; Eccl. 4: 8.">sore</a> travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="14"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/14" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;14 
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/1/14b" mark="b" type="Q" title="HEB striving after wind; thus, frustration; Eccl. 2: 17 (17, 26); Eccl. 4: 4 (4, 6, 16); Eccl. 6: 9.">vexation</a> of spirit.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="15"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/15" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;15 
<i>That which is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 13.">crooked</a> cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="16"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/16" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;16 
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB I have become great.">I</a> am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all <i>they</i> that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="17"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/17" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;17 
And I gave my <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 25; Mosiah 12: 27.">heart</a> to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="18"></a>
<div id="eccl/1/18" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;18 
For in much wisdom <i>is</i> much grief: and he that increaseth <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/1/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> increaseth <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/1/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sorrow.">sorrow</a>.
</div>
</div>
